Editorial July 28, 1962 Issue

To Acknowledge or to Neglect a Revelation

Carl J. Welz

If we admit that Christian Science is truth revealed, we must live in conformity with it. Otherwise according to our admission our lives declare what is untrue. To agree that Christian Science is a revelation is to acknowledge a divine plan in which Truth, the divine Mind, reveals itself to humanity. All that is true concerning our lives, therefore, exists in the revelation. The way we choose to live, then, constitutes our acknowledgment of the revelation or the neglect of it.

Fundamental to the teachings of Christian Science is the fact that its coming was prophesied in the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, where we read of "a woman clothed with the sun" who "brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron." This vision was a further elucidation of Christ Jesus' promise (John 14:26), "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."

Christian Science teaches the allness of Mind, God, and the nothingness of matter. It teaches that man reflects Mind, Spirit, Love; therefore man is mental, spiritual, loving, but never material or mortal. It shows that evil does not exist in the real Mind or in the real man but only in material belief. The accuracy of this teaching is demonstrated when the truth of Mind's allness and matter's nothingness is applied to any discordant situation. Evil disappears, and good appears in its place. Thereby we know that the Comforter has come; the "man child" is Christian Science.

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